Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 1378
Book Description
A weekly review of politics, literature, theology, and art.
The Spectator
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 1378
Book Description
A weekly review of politics, literature, theology, and art.
Pennsylvania School Journal
Author: The Truth of Yoga
Author: Daniel SimpsonPublisher: North Point Press
ISBN: 0374722684
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 169
Book Description
A succinct, approachable guide to the origins, development, key texts, concepts, and practices of yoga. Yoga is practiced by many millions of people worldwide and is celebrated for its mental, physical, and spiritual benefits. And yet, as Daniel Simpson reveals in The Truth of Yoga, much of what is said about yoga is misleading. For example, the word “yoga” does not always mean union. In fact, in perhaps the discipline’s most famous text—the Yoga Sutra of Patanjali—its aim is described as separation: isolating consciousness from everything else. And yoga is not five thousand years old, as is commonly claimed; the earliest evidence of practice dates back about twenty-five hundred years. (Yoga may well be older, but no one can prove it.) The Truth of Yoga is a clear, concise, and accessible handbook for the lay reader that draws upon abundant recent scholarship. It outlines these new findings with practitioners in mind, highlighting ways to keep traditions alive in the twenty-first century.
Inhaling Spirit
Author: Anya P. FoxenPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190082755
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Recent scholarship has shown that modern postural yoga is the outcome of a complex process of transcultural exchange and syncretism. This book doubles down on those claims and digs even deeper, looking to uncover the disparate but entangled roots of modern yoga practice. Anya Foxen shows that some of what we call yoga, especially in North America and Europe, is genealogically only slightly related to pre-modern Indian yoga traditions. Rather, it is equally, if not more so, grounded in Hellenistic theories of the subtle body, Western esotericism and magic, pre-modern European medicine, and late-nineteenth-century women's wellness programs. The book begins by examining concepts arising out of Greek philosophy and religion, including Pythagoreanism, Stoicism, Neo-Platonism, Galenic medicine, theurgy, and other cultural currents that have traditionally been categorized as "Western esotericism," as well as the more recent examples which scholars of American traditions have labeled "metaphysical religion." Marshaling these under the umbrella category of "harmonialism," Foxen argues that they represent a history of practices that were gradually subsumed into the language of yoga. Orientalism and gender become important categories of analysis as this narrative moves into the nineteenth century. Women considerably outnumber men in all studies of yoga except those conducted in India, and modern anglophone yoga exhibits important continuities with women's physical culture, feminist reform, and white women's engagement with Orientalism. Foxen's study allows us to recontextualize the peculiarities of American yoga--its focus on aesthetic representation, its privileging of bodily posture and unsystematic incorporation of breathwork, and above all its overwhelmingly white female demographic. In this context it addresses the ongoing conversation about cultural appropriation within the yoga community.
Norton's Literary Gazette and Publishers' Circular
Author: Norton's Literary Advertiser
Author: The Pennsylvania School Journal
Author: Thomas Henry BurrowesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 1178
Book Description
Athenaeum
Author: James Silk BuckinghamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 896
Book Description
The Athenaeum
Author: The Publishers Weekly
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1394
Book Description